MPIRE OF EVIL drummer Marc "JXN" Jackson (ex-THROWDOWN) is featured in a new interview with Caleb Smith at The Sick Room out of New Zealand. Check it out below:

On May 7, Deadline Music (a subsidiary of Cleopatra Records) will release Crucified, the new album from Mpire Of Evil, launched by former VENOM members Mantas (guitar) and Tony “Demolition Man” Dolan (vocals, bass).

Crucified bulldozes through eleven tracks (including nine Venom favorites from the Prime Evil era), opening with the driving 'Temples Of Ice' and not taking its foot off the gas through the closing beast, 'Taking It All' (which includes the perfect anti- chant). The riffs are dense and mighty, rhythms propulsive, and the vocals relentlessly intense. The record takes on dystopian themes of destruction, evil, and corruption and in the case of pointed tracks like 'Blackened Are The Priests', all three.

In 1979, guitarist Jeff Dunn took on the name Mantas and created a musical entity that would inspire an entire subgenre of metal. Venom combined dark, heavy and loud with a proficiency that created history with two records, Welcome To Hell and Black Metal, that are considered the gold standard of thrash. Built on this foundation, M:Pire Of Evil formed in the UK in 2010. Their debut record displayed musical integrity and prowess befitting of the legacy. Crucified, MoE’s second full-length record, continues that legacy.

Crucified tracklisting:

'Temples Of Ice'

'Parasite '

'Kissing The Beast'

'Blackened Are The Priests'

'Carnivorous'

'Black Legions'

'Need To Kill'

'Wolverine'

'Crucified'

'Demone'

'Taking It All'

'Taking It All' is streaming here.

The band recently announced their first ever show in France. It will take place on May 10th at the Forum in Laudun L'ardoise, complete details will be announced soon.

The band's schedule is now as follows:

May

10 - Forum - Laudun L'ardoise, France

October

5 - British Steel Saturday Night 2 - Fismes, France

More shows will be announced soon.